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BARREL SUSTAININ'G APPARATUS.

Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT thrice.

JOSEPH D. \VESTGATE, OF \VOROESTER, MASS., ASSIGNOB, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF THREE-FOURTHS TO FRANK N. EDDY, ALFRED ELOOOK, AND WVILLIAM E. HADWEN, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

BARREL-SUSTAINING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,524, dated November 3, 1885.

Application filed April 20, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn D. WEs'reArE, of Voreester city and county, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Barrel-Sustaining Apparatus, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention has for its object the production of a barrel-sustaining apparatus,by which a barrel may readily be raised from the floor and be there sustained for use; and this object is attained by means substantially as hereinafter set forth and particularly claimed.

Figure 1, in side elevation. represents a barrel mounted upon one of my improved barrelsustainings; Fig. 2, a right-hand end elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a modification wherein the standards or uprights are secured directly to the floor, and Fig. 4 a top View of Fig. 2.

The standards or uprights A A, herein shown as bolted or otherwise fixed to the footplate or platform B, but which may, if desired, be bolted or screwed directly on the floor of a room, as in Fig. 3, where the barrels O are to be used, have at their upper ends suitable journals, on which is mounted the concaved barrel-supporting frame D, provided, preferably, at its front end with a projection or dog, 2, which, when the frame is tipped into position, as in dotted lines, Fig. 1, to receive a barrel, comes next the floor and receives upon it the chine of the barrel, and thereafter the barrel is tipped over into the frame, and the frame is turned on the journals a into the position shown in Fig. 1, in which position the barrel is balanced for use or to be moved. If the barrel is to be moved about, the foot-plate or platform B will be provided with casters or other suitable wheels, E E. The standard 6 has pivoted upon it a latch, f,

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which engages one end, 3, of the frame D, and forms a locking device for it. The frame has four projections, 4 4 4 4, arranged in the are 5 of a circle, forming rests for the barrel. The frame D is pivoted to the standards A at points to that side of its longitudinal center which is away from the latch-engaged end, so that when in horizontal position the preponderance of the weight of the frame D and its load is at that end, to assist in keeping it in position. The dog 2 projects out from the frame D, and

is shaped to enter between the casters or reach down for the barrel, so that the barrel need 5 only be tipped, and not lifted, to get it upon the frame.

My improved support will enable kerosene, sirup, and other barrels to be easily mounted and handled in stores, and is neat in appearance and very durable.

I claim- 1. The standards A, combined with the concave frame D,journaled in said standards eccentrically, and having the projection 2 and barrel-rests 4, and the latch f, pivoted upon the standard 6 in position to engage the frame to hold it in position, substantially as shown and described.

2. The standards A, concave frame D, jour- 7O naled in said standards, and having the projection 2 and barrel-rests 4, and the latch f, pivoted upon the standard 0 in position to engage the frame to hold'it in position, combined with the platform B and its wheels E, 7 5 substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH D. \VESTGATE.

\Vitnesses:

WV. H. SIGsToN, JOHN F. O. PREINKERT. 

